Boston Celtics’ Jaylen Brown has lower ties with Kanye West [Updated]

This piece was posted almost two hours earlier than Jaylen Brown introduced he was leaving Kanye West’s Donda Sports advertising and marketing agency. It has been up to date with the newest information.

Being the Boston Celtic participant to discuss Bill Russell on opening night time, in entrance of the world, whereas in Boston, at the beginning of the first-ever NBA season in simply months after the namesake of the Finals MVP trophy had handed is each an amazing honor and accountability. Fortunately, the Celtics had in their very own locker room the best particular person to handle the world — Jaylen Brown.

During the 2020 NBA bubble, the NBA relaxed its guidelines on gamers being required to face for the nationwide anthem. The Celtics took half, and earlier than Brown took any questions from the media after scoring 30 factors in a victory towards the Portland Trail Blazers he had one thing that he needed to get off of his chest.

“Angela Davis once said that racism is so dangerous not because of individual actors, because it’s deeply embedded in the apparatus,” Brown instructed the media. “I think about that quote a lot when I think about the national anthem which was written by Francis Scott Key, who was a slave owner.”

That’s why proactive measures ought to all the time be taken to try to root out racism. The very music written throughout a battle wherein America fought off intruders to carry onto its standing as a sovereign nation, was written by an individual who was holding human beings in bondage at the moment. This music continues to be the anthem that performs to show final American satisfaction, greater than 200 years later.

An astute remark from Brown shouldn’t be a shock. Going into his freshman yr at California he wasn’t solely placing in work on his recreation. This top-five recruit was taking steps in order that he would be capable of enroll in a graduate-level course — Theoretical Foundations for the Cultural Studies of Sport and Education — as soon as the varsity yr started. Brown being so considerate and placing in a lot work on the entrance strains for justice makes the truth that he’s in enterprise with Ye — previously referred to as Kanye West — so disappointing.

Updated on Oct. 25, 2022 at 6:50 p.m. EST: But that’s no extra as Brown introduced he’s not working with Ye’s Donda Sports advertising and marketing agency.

“I have always, and will always continue to stand strongly against any antisemitism, hate speech, mistreatment and oppressive rhetoric of any kind,” learn an announcement from Brown.

Rams defensive lineman and future Hall of Famer Aaron Donald introduced that he too could be leaving Donda.

Brown signed with Ye’s Donda Sports advertising and marketing agency this previous summer season. Recently, Ye has been within the information for making antisemitic feedback at any given alternative. It has gotten so dangerous that each one of his mainstream social media accounts are locked and he was dropped by CAA on Monday and Adidas on Tuesday. On Monday, Brown stated a number of occasions to The Boston Globe that he’s towards all the things that Ye has been saying currently, however he additionally won’t be leaving Donda Sports presently. Brown has switched gears, and rightfully so, although this repudication ought to have come a lot sooner.

Even earlier than Ye began spewing antisemitic bile and sporting a “White Lives Matter” shirt subsequent to Candace Owens, there was no motive for Brown to signal along with his sports activities advertising and marketing firm. Donda Sports was began lengthy after Ye stated “slavery for 400 years, that sound like a choice.” That similar day within the TMZ studio Ye “What about Chicago’ed” Van Lathan, who had rebuked him for making asinine, incoherent, and harmful statements whereas being interviewed. Yet, Brown instructed The Globe that he signed with Donda Sports as a result of “it represented education, it represented activism, disruption, it represented single-parent households, and a lot more people are involved in something like that.”

Nothing Ye has stated in recent times has given off that he has any of these emotions in his coronary heart. What he has publicly put into the world since he first wore that Make America Great Again hat is white supremacist rhetoric. As the years go by it will get worse and worse.

I discover it arduous to imagine that Brown would give Ye’s buddy, Owens, the time of day. This girl sat in entrance of Congress and stated, “Based on the hierarchy of what’s impacting minority Americans, if I had to make a list of 100 things, white nationalism would not make the list. White supremacy and white nationalism is not a problem that is harming Black America.”

That’s just about the precise reverse of what Brown stated in The Bubble again in 2020. Yet, Ye has spoken glowingly about Owens for years and now could be about to buy her husband’s struggling far right-wing social media community. She was there with Ye on the TMZ studios when he deserted his race and hometown for everybody with eyes to see and ears to listen to. She was quiet when he was babbling nonsense about no matter self-actualization he believes he has achieved, however jumped within the dialog like Brown catching an alley-oop when he went on that absurd Black-on-Black crime rant.

The world will be an unpleasant place. There is an efficient probability that exploited little one labor is stitching the garments in your again, and mining the cobalt that makes your smartphone operate. Soccer followers from each nook of the globe are going to observe the World Cup in Qatar, despite the fact that greater than 6,500 migrant staff died whereas developing the stadiums as of 2021, in accordance to The Guardian.

In order to stay, folks sooner or later take part within the oppression and demise of others. However, there’s room to say no sooner or later. It was wholly pointless for Brown to do enterprise with an organization whose chief is preaching towards everybody and all the things that he’s combating for.

Ye may be in the course of a manic episode. He has admitted to being bipolar, and whereas not all individuals who undergo from psychological well being points say and do hurtful issues there are additionally some who do. If Brown is pals with Ye and feels he wants some assist, he ought to strive his greatest to take action. But, by not leaving, Brown would do harm to his title. A reputation that simply final week was rightfully deemed match to honor the lifetime of one of the crucial honorable Americans to ever stay.